The success of Android helps Google to ensure that its search engine its most important source of revenue as well as mapping and otherservices, are preloaded on mobile devices, through which consumers are spending more time online.
Google announced last week, for instance, that it will offer two-factor authentication on many of its online services, and may make the service open source and available to other companies.
When Andrew Fluegelman first got hold of an early IBM PC, he noticed that there was no way to exchange files with other PC users or log on to early services like CompuServe or The Source or computer bulletin boards.